Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-01

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large tracts of land into small farms for the use
of actual residents; to secure the grading, gray
| cling, or otherwise substantial improvement
of the main streets CT the city; to influence the
| same improvement of all our main county
| roads, so that in winter well as in summer,
they may serve as necessary means of cOmmu-
| nication; to beauty those improved roadways
| by planting variety of evergreen trees along
| their borders; to fill China slough; to improve
| the condition of our business streets, by chang
| ing the low irregular awnings, cross-signs, and
| wide projections for show purposes: to adopt
| plan for the drainage of the city; to aid in
encouraging new manufacturing interests; TO
increase streetrailway facilities; to further i'm
prove the east portion of the Capitol park; to
| influence the graveling of the driveway in East
| Park; to arrange for such speedy adjustment
of our city debt. as shall be equitable
| to the city and to the bondhoders
alike, so that cur people may not be
| further harassed by expensive lawsuits. and
| SO that a settlement may be had of uncertain
| Indebtedness, which has SO long served to re-
| tard our prosperity, and the general improve
| ment in every department of business and
| political life of the city and county OF Sacra-
mentO.
MEMBERSHIP.
Every reputable citizen of Sacramento county,
can become a member of this Association, upon
| a favorable report of the Executive Committee
upon signing the roll of membership, and pay
| Ing membership fee of five dollars.
OFFICERS.
Itsofiicers shall consist of a President. Vice
| President, Secretary and Treasurer, and an
Executive Committee of twenty-five. The said
officers shall be ex-ofcio members of the Execu-
tive Committee.
DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
The President, Vice President Secretary and
| Treasurer shall perform the duties usually ap-
| pertaining by parliamentary law to such Of
| fcers, and such other duties as may be pre-
seribed from time to time by the Association or
the Executive Committee. The Secretary shall
| have power to employ clerk to assist him in
| the performance of his duties.
MEETINGS
| The Association shall hold an annual meeting
on the first Monday of June of each year and
| such other meetings. at such times and places
| as may be called by the President or Executive
| Committee. AT the annual meeting the officers
| of the Association shall be elected, and shall
hold oifloe for one year, and until other officers
\ are elected. Any vacancy in any office or in
| the Executive Committee to be filled by the Ex-
eCutive Committee, the appontees to hold until
| the next annual election.
| DUTY AND POWER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
| 1t shall be the duty of the Executive Commit
| tee otake charge of and manage the business
| of the Association. over which they shall have
| full power, except when otherwise specially di-
| rected by the Association. They shall at all
| times labor faithfully for. and carry into full
| force and effect the objects of the Association
| They shall hold regular monthly meetings, and
| such special meetings shall be provided for
| by their rules. They shall have power to pre-
vide such rules for their government as they
may deem best The Executive Committee, in
order to carry out the various objects of the As
ISOLATION, shall have the power to appoint
| special committees of such members of the
| Executive Committee or the Association as to
| them shall seem best, of interested citizens
| specially qualified to act in such capacities,
| which special committees shall be authorized
| by the Executive Committee to take charge of
| the subjects that they may be intrusted with,
| and act fully in reference thereto, and make
| full reports for the use of the Executive Com
mittee.
FUNDS AND REVENUES
The revenue of this Association shall be de
| rived as follows: From initiation fees of MEM
| beers; from assessment upon each officer of the
( Association. and each member of the Executive
| Committee, and which shall be five dollars
| annually ; and from such other assessments as
| may be levied from time to time by the Execu-
tive Committee upon its members, and from
| voluntary contributions of members whenever
| requested by the Executive Committee.
Funds shall be expended in such manner as
| TO the Executive Committee shall seem best.
Colonel E. r. Hamilton, member of
the Committee on Organization, also pro-
scented the following as embracing the OBJ
jects and subjects for work of the associa-
ton:
To the General improvement Committee of the
| City and County of dcrdnert0-GENTLEMEN: We
| beg leave to respectfully submit the following
| suggestions us starting point, for not only
your careful consideration, but also to call the
| attention of our citizens to the work necessary
to be done to improve our city and county in
order to make them pleasing 10 ourselves and
| attractive to strangers from abroad. who may
be looking for investments and homes in Cali
| fornia
l. Urge the immediate filling up of China
Slough.
?. The complete renovation or removal of
Chinatown.
3. Eudeavor to have the wharves upon our
city front properly repaired.
4. Provide Tor the disposition OF the sewage
of the city, and not permit it 10 flow. as at pres
ent, into the Drainage Canal, where it is polut-
ing the air that blows over the city.
5. Have all the water lots filed 10 the level of
| the adjoining streets.
6. Solicit the Board of Trustees to provide
| ways and means to keep the streets and alleys
| clean from garbage. and to pass an ordinance to
prevent the distribution of dodgers upon our
streets and sidewalks, thereby littering them
| over.
T. Request the Board of Trustees to provide
for the sprinklng of the streets every day in
| the year when needed, for our experience in the
| past has been that there are many days in early
| spring and late III the fall where the dust does
| more damage to goods and furniture than many
| times the cost of sprinkling at such times
| would be.
! s. To consider and devise ways and means
! for a reduction or extinguishment of the bonded
| debt of the city, in order that this incubus NAV
| be removed FROM our shoulders.
3. 10 select suitable number of freeholders
| to draft city charter that shall meet the pres
| ent requirements of the city, and among other
| things to provide for the prompt collection of
DELINQUENT taxes; have the same submitted to
| NOtS pi lDe people, aha, II GallIeQ, nave 1t
passed upon by our next Legislature
| 10. Request the Board of Trustees TO set the
| example by having cement walks laid around
the Plaza and around all the school houses
| when the present sidewalks need repairing
| IL. Plant trees around and in all the public
squares belonging to the city, thereby aiding in
| beautifying the city, and which will have the
| tendency TO soon surround said squares with
| fine residences.
H. Urge The Building Inspector to at once ex-
anime all buildings and awnings that are likely
to be unsafe and report the same to the proper
authorities
ls. Request the Board of Trustees to pass an
ordinance prohibiting any more awnings sup
ported by posts from being erected, and that all
awnings shall hereafter be erected of uniform
hight and width.
| IA. Urge the Board of Trustees to rigidiy en-
force the ordinance relative to signs across the
| sidewalks. as well as obstructing the sidewalks
| by placing machinery or goods thereon for show
| or storage.
| l5 Solicit and encourage the property own
ers on J and n stress from Front to Twelfth.
and on the intervening Streets to have their
| sidewalks needing repair laid on stone cement
or covered with the Santa Cruz asphaltum
cement.
| l6. In order to make the business streets pre-
sent more tidy appearance than at present.
solicit the property owners to paint their avn
ings and the walls above the awnings where
needed.
| H. Request the Board of Trustees to require
| air sidewalks in the residence portion OF the
| city to be properly eurbed and paved and the
dirt portion planted to bluegrass seed
! 1S To request the proper authorities to occu-
| Ply the chain gang in trimming the grass on the
sides of the streets outside the curbs in the res
| idence portion OF the city, and to keep down
the weeds on the sidewalks located in front of
ali unoceupied lots in the city.
10. As considerable of the outlying unoccu-
| pied property is owned by non-resideuts and
| others for speculative purposes, and most of
which is uuimproved, either as to sidewalks or
tidy fences. and which now aids in giving the
city shittless and untidy appearance, request
| the Board,of Trustees to require sidewalks laid
| in front of all such property, and. in order to
make the expense as light as possible, have the
| sidewalk or pavement part made four. feet wide
| and the balance seeded in blue grass. BY so do
| ing considerable expense will be saved and the
width of the walk viii answer all practical pur-
! poses at present. and improve the appearance
| CT the streets.
| 90 Endeavor to have all fences upon the va
! cant lois and upon all roads leading east and
south of the city repaired and whitewashed
which will wonderfully improve the appear
ance of the same.
u. Request the Board of Trustees to have all
graded streets, as soon as practicable, covered
in the center with grayel-say twenty-one feet
in width. This will not cost much, and will
then make good driyeways in both winter and
summer.